EMAIL TO THE PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION: JUST SAY NO TO GULF POWER

Emailed this evening to members of the PSC. (Addresses are here if anyone wants to do the same)

chairman.Graham@psc.state.fl.us; commissioner.Balbis@psc.state.fl.us; commissioner.brise@psc.state.fl.us; commissioner.Edgar@psc.state.fl.us; commissioner.Brown@psc.state.fl.us
I am retired and on a fixed income. Gulf Power's rate increases the past few years are helping to impoverish me. But at least I HAVE an income. What about the 10% in our community who are unemployed without the possibility of any income in the foreseeable future. Now is not the time to bend to Wall Street and investors. Now is the time to come to the aid of your fellow Americans, who need you to JUST SAY NO to Gulf Power.

PS - If you haven't read the 104 responses to the article in the Pensacola News Journal, please do! I've attached a few of them.

http://www.pnj.com/article/20110916/NEWS01/109160315/Angry-customers-protest-Gulf-Power-rate-hike?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE

SummerGreen 4:07 PM on September 16, 2011
SummerGreen. Please correct previous figure for reserves
2010 Southern Company reserves were over $55 Billion
2009 Southern Company reserves were over $53 Billion
Pretty good to increase your reserves over 2 billion in a bad economy in one year
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pkmjr 4:25 PM on September 16, 2011
Just a thought...
Look at this site on prices for power across the country by state.
http://www.electricchoice.com/electricity-prices-by-state.php
Most states are cheaper this year that last NOT MORE...!!!
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C23C24 6:04 PM on September 16, 2011
Definition of a monopoly::: Control of market supply: a situation in which one company controls an industry or is the only provider of a product or service.
Sounds like to me Gulf Power is a Monopoly to us..We have no choice: pay the $$$ or be S.O.L.... Hummmmmmm So I ask is it legal to be a Monopoly over everyone in the Pensacola area? I am a HARD working MOTHER and it takes every penny to make ends match around here already!! Someone should start a new power company and put Gulf Power out of Service!!
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hallmarkgrad 8:45 AM on September 16, 2011
Thomas A. Fanning
Chairman President and Chief Executive Officer
SOUTHERN CO (SO)
Headquarters: ATLANTA, GA
Electric Gas And Sanitary Services
In 2010, Thomas A. Fanning received $6,019,151 in total compensation.
By comparison, the median worker made $33,190 in 2010.
Thomas A. Fanning made 181 times the median worker's pay
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1966 8:51 AM on September 16, 2011
Gulf Power might want to examine its wage and salary structure; and what measures has Gulf Power, better its parent company, southern Companies, taken to reduce operating costs? and what strategic plans are in place to replace carbon based sources of power with nuclear or wind driven sources?

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10:06 AM on September 16, 2011
SRCTEACHER.
Great statement that I am sure all of the suits from GP listened to, but did not hear:
"I'm a single parent and I can't eat and I can't get my blood pressure medicine,'' said Marilyn Jackson of Pensacola, as she pleaded to the five commissioners to refuse the request. "I'm skinny as a damn bone because I can't afford food already. Please help me.''
......  I am hearin' ya lady!!! Give'em hades!